Sharing my faith with non-believers is often intimidating in a culture so hostile to Christianity. I have walked away from these conversations feeling ineffective and frustrated, or have lacked the courage to even start them. I am gaining confidence as I continue to follow the suggestions in this book for solidifying what I believe, backed by rational reasons for my beliefs, which is also strengthening my own faith. _B.T.

...Clear definitions, personal illustrations, and implications that help the readers to understand why a reasonable explanation for our faith is important. _H.P.

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How This Contest Works

Here’s how our viral giveaway contest for Patty Houser’s book, A Woman’s Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God with Your Heart and Your Mind (List price = $15.99), works.If you sign up, you get one point. If you share the news with a friend and she clicks on your referral link, visits the site, and enters her email thus entering the giveaway contest, she will get two entry points.

“GASP! Whaaaat, Natalie?” you screech. “Why in the world would I want to give her two points?"

Because giving her two points to visit the page through your link instead of just one point helps her remember her Christian faith and Jesus’s admonition to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and check herself on her impulse to sidestep your link by going to the page directly.

You see, she may think to herself that if she clicks through using your link you’re going to get ahead of her in the contest.Just sayin’. I mean we do live in a fallen world and things do get competitive when it comes to our lusciously-made-with-actual-paper Christian books and all… ;-) And, think about it: if you questioned it, rather than just thinking, “All right! I get to give my soul sister 2 points toward Patty’s book and that makes me feel overjoyed, even though I only get one point toward Patty’s book!” then who’s all needin’ to check her Golden Rule memory verse? But let’s take this same example one step further and see further how you giving her two points for entering the contest while you only got one for entering the contest might possibly benefit you – exponentially.

Continuing with that same friend, if she clicks through the link you shared, (earning herself those 2 points right off the bat), and then enters her email address to enter the contest, you get one point.

So, she is motivated to click through using your referral link because she’s going to enter the contest with two points, rather than just the one point she’d receive if she visited the site without using your referral link. And you’re still happy because you got a point when you shared your link socially on one platform or another and you’re going to get a point if she enters the contest. Nicey-nice.

But it gets even better.

For extra points, you have even more options:

If you share on Facebook RIGHT AWAY from the “Share” page, which appears right after you’ve entered the contest, you will get one more point. Yes. It’s true. Just by sharing on FB directly and immediately from the “Share” page.

If you share on Twitter RIGHT AWAY from the “Share” page, you will get one point yet again. Yes. This, too, is true. Just by sharing directly and immediately to Twitter from the “Share” page, you will continue racking up pointstowardwinningPatty’s book!

And it keeps getting better…

If you share on Google+, LinkedIn, or Pinterest – again, directly and immediately from the “Share” page – you get another point for each and every social place you share it.

Andif you share by sending an email message to all your peeps you think would want to know how they can know why they believe what they believe, you will get yet another point for sharing that way. And to sweeten that option for you, we’ve even provided a little pre-written email for you and all you have to do is enter some email addresses, hit send, and it goes and does its work for you, potentially earning you more points toward winning Patty’s book when people enter the contest through your link.

Sweeter still…

So far, each and every time one of those peeps of yours enters the giveaway contest through any of those links you’ve posted, tweeted, pinned, or emailed, you get one additional point. But let’s up the ante even more. If a person clicks through your link and views the page about Your.BiblicalBreakthrough.com and Patty’s book - and doesn’t even enter the contest - we’re still going to give you: one. more. point. Every time. Every. Time.

Gettin’ the picture?

Here’s the Beauty: It’s a Total Win-Win!

The more you share, the more chances you have to win Patty’s book! And the closer you are to filling your mind with good and excellent knowledge about understanding what you believe and why you believe it! AND the more sets of beautiful female eyes (and each and every set of female eyes is good and lovely in God’s sight) that look upon the opportunity to grow biblically and theologically through Your.BiblicalBreakthrough.com Training Telesummits for women, then the closer we all are to the Body of Christ growing up to maturity, because more and more women around the world will have more and more opportunity to grow in their knowledge of God’s Word and gain greater skill and confidence in handling it correctly.

Win-win? Win-win!

Legal notes:We want to be absolutely clear once again that Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, or any other social media outlet has absolutely nothing to do with the creation, running, or maintenance of this book giveaway contest. To be clear, this contest is in no way sponsored by Facebook or any of the other social media outlets/companies.